Citizen Precinct Survey

November 4, 2008

This election day, DCWatch and a group of citizen organizations are doing a survey about conditions at
the District's polling sites. Please print a copy of this survey and take it with you to your precinct.
When you have filled it out, please send your answers by E-mail to election@dcwatch.com
or mail it to Precinct Survey, DCWatch, 1327 Girard Street, NW, Washington, DC
20009. Thank you for your cooperation.

Your response to this survey is to be based on your observations at your
precinct as you vote. In no way should you interfere with the voting process.
However, if convenient, you can speak with the Precinct Captain or the poll
workers to secure information for the survey. If you have a chance to visit
other precincts on election day, it would be helpful to the project if you could
complete a separate survey for each of them.

Precinct number (if known) ____________________

Precinct address ____________________________

What time did you arrive? _____________________

Approximately how many voters were in line when you arrived? ______________

What time did you finish voting and leave? _________

Approximately how many voters were in line when you left? _________________

Campaigning and electioneering:

Were candidates or their volunteers campaigning or electioneering within 50 feet of the entrance to the precinct? If so, did an election official or
police officer intervene to stop the campaigning or to move campaigners
from the entrance? If not, did you inform the Precinct Captain, and what did he
do about it?

Precinct Operations

What was the condition of the precinct? (Was it clean, well-lit, and properly
ventilated? Was it too small? Was it well organized and laid out to accommodate voting
equipment, poll workers, and voters?)

Was there a line of voters at any of the clerk stations (that is, Check-In
Clerk, Ballot Clerk, Special Ballot Clerk, Paper Ballot Optical Scan Voting
Machine, or Touch Screen Voting Machine)?
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Did the poll workers appear to have received proper training to do their
jobs? If not, provide details.